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What is this?

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:28 am
by Alex C
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OK, is this the new Miraphone "Paris" model?

Note: the leadpipe comes all the way down to the 5th valve.

I am interested in the main tuning slide wrap, too. Or maybe it's not the main tuning slide... oh, whatever.

What is this horn?

I'm betting that it is an F, no, Eb... no, E tuba with descant valve.


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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:08 pm
by cjk
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Thein F tuba.

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:54 pm
by UDELBR
cjk wrote: Thein F tuba.
Yup. Note the extra-long main tuning slide, made by guys who weren't exactly sure how long an F tuba oughta be. :?

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:31 pm
by Alex C
uh.... the, uh..... tuning slide....

..............................exactly where would that be? On this instrument, I mean. I have to find it before I can note it.

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:02 pm
by Rick Denney
Alex C wrote:uh.... the, uh..... tuning slide....

..............................exactly where would that be? On this instrument, I mean. I have to find it before I can note it.
The main slide is in the position of the old Miraphone 5th-valve slide, poking out the top in a manner that would make Fred Marzan happy.

The horizontal slide is for the fifth valve, and I'll bet the slide is interchangeable with a short one to allow whole-step or quint tuning.

The sound goes up the valves, not down them, sorta like an antique Besson.

Rick "not hating the idea" Denney

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:21 pm
by iiipopes
Or like all trumpets copied after the original French Besson, which is basically all perinet valved trumpets.

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:01 am
by windshieldbug
Rick Denney wrote:The sound goes up the valves, not down them, sorta like an antique Besson
iiipopes wrote:Or like all trumpets copied after the original French Besson, which is basically all perinet valved trumpets.
... whose intervals, placement, and order were taken directly from the Stölzel piston cornopean, which was an adaptation on the keyed bugle...

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:53 pm
by iiipopes
Touche. There's nothing new in the world but the history you don't know. (goes off humming the Hummel...)